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Blanca Guerra
Born: 10th Jan 1953 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Dept: Acting
Blanca Guerra Islas (born January 10, 1953) is a Mexican actress. In 1983 she was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.
Initially she was a dentistry student, but she abandoned her studies to study at the UNAM University Theater Center, which allowed her to debut as a theater actress. Later, she ventured into the cinema acting in the film La loca de los milagros, which marks her artistic debut and the beginning of her extensive film career. She has to his credit more than sixty films.
In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to be a special part of its new members.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 101
Film: 82 (81%)
Television: 19 (19%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Western, Fantasy, Documentary, Music, TV Movie, War & Politics, Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Filmography
2025
William McKay’s successful New York executive career is in ruins after a shocking betrayal. Called by his estranged father, William travels to Beliz ... view
Character:
Julia
Jul 2025 (first aired)
The telenovela revolves around Leonel Carranza (Fernando Colunga), a man who lives in Villa Escarlata and owns the Montoro estate. His routine changes ... view
Character:
Covadonga de los Reyes (80 ep.)
Mar 2025 (first aired)
After 25 years of marriage, Eloísa learns her husband is having an affair with a younger man and separates. Her newfound solitude leads her to self-d ... view
Character:
Carmela (24 ep.)
Original title: Caras vemos
2024
It follows an unconventional family who find themselves embroiled in a personality swap after little Zoe has a mystical encounter with an ancient god. ... view
Character:
Viviana
Original title: El último vagón
2023
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico. ... view
Character:
Maga Etérea
2023
Andrea, a successful veterinarian who loves her job and is in a relationship with Lucio, an up-and-coming lawyer who grew up in the country. Lucio has ... view
Character:
Blanca
2023
After learning an irreversible truth, Camila, Teté and Margo must abandon their busy lives to come up with a plan to end their mother's life. ... view
Character:
Rosalinda
Original title: El sueño de ayer
2022
Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life. ... view
Character:
Cristina
Original title: Un sentimiento honesto en el calabozo del olvido
2020
A woman with a degree in biology and a particular taste for arachnids gets involved with some unfinished business left by her dead mother, leading her ... view
Character:
Claudia Castejón
Mar 2019 (first aired)
A woman returns to her home village in Mexico after 19 years and opens up a strip club for women. ... view
Character:
Matilde Robledo (15 ep.)
Oct 2018 (first aired)
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his ... view
Character:
Carmen Martínez (8 ep.)
Original title: Cien años con Juan Rulfo
2017
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work. ... view
Character:
Self
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and ... view
Character:
Alfonsina Mondragón de Arango (162 ep.)
2011
Mexico 1914. During the Revolution, a raid by the army in a small mining town leaves Gapo, 11, orphaned. Taken captive to be turned into a child soldi ... view
Character:
La Soldadera (voice)
2011
After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with hi ... view
Character:
Herself
Jul 2010 (first aired)
Para Volver a Amar is a Televisa telenovela that aired on the Canal de las Estrellas channel in Mexico from July 12, 2010 to January 30, 2011. It star ... view
Character:
Maestra de Ceremonias (invitada) (146 ep.)
Original title: Bajo la Sal
2008
A series of murders leads Commander Trujillo to Santa Rosa de la Sal a town close to a salt mine, where he meets Victor Zepeda - a lonely teenager who ... view
Character:
Guadalupe Calva
Original title: Cosas insignificantes
2008
Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a ... view
Character:
Mara
2008
Every abandoned woman has dreamed of taking revenge on her husband. Fate gives Eva that possibility. On the first anniversary of running away to find ... view
Character:
Eva
Feb 2008 (first aired)
Alma de Hierro is a 2008–2009 Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of the Argentinian soap opera Son de Fierro, with the characte ... view
Character:
Elena Jiménez de Hierro (395 ep.)
Original title: Morirse está en hebreo
2007
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed. ... view
Character:
Julia Palafox
Original title: La Zona
2007
Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, ... view
Character:
Lucía
Original title: Niñas Mal
2007
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy. ... view
Character:
Maca Ribera
Jun 2003 (first aired)
Velo de Novia is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio Ortiz to Televisa in 2003. It starred Susana González and Eduardo Santamarina with the ... view
Character:
Ricarda Sánchez de del Álamo (135 ep.)
Original title: Su alteza serenísima
2000
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co ... view
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Original title: En un claroscuro de la luna
1999
Ana starts falling in love with an ecologist engineer that comes with her father who is from Russia. ... view
Character:
Maruca, witch
Original title: Un embrujo
1999
In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the rel ... view
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Felipa / Teacher
1997
Violeta is a Cuban prostitute who tells her tempestuous life story to a young male journalist. Her first lover was a revolutionary killed by governmen ... view
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1996
In this remake of the 40's classic, two lovers murder each other, leading to an investigation and the closing of the Saln Mxico, a famous place where ... view
Character:
Almendrita
1996
An officer (Francis Lorenzo) from Madrid keeps a general's daughter (Patricia Vico) in the dark about his love affair with a Central American guerrill ... view
Character:
Norma
1995
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his an ... view
Character:
Archaeologist
Original title: La reina de la noche
1994
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary b ... view
Character:
La Jaira
1994
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, ... view
Character:
Escobedo's Wife
Original title: Principio y fin
1994
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is th ... view
Character:
Julia
Jun 1993 (first aired)
Valentina is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. Which aired in 1993 on Canal de las Estrellas and it stars Verónica ... view
Character:
Deborah Andrade (160 ep.)
Original title: Kino
1993
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of h ... view
Character:
Courtesan
Original title: En Medio de la Nada
1993
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his bro ... view
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1992
A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her hu ... view
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1991
A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance. ... view
Character:
Colorada
Original title: Morir en el golfo
1990
The story of the oil leader Lázaro Pizarro, of his political and personal wars, the use of crime to settle conflicts and the course of his power betw ... view
Character:
Leonora
1989
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name. ... view
Character:
Concha
1989
Wandering gunslinger trains peaceable farmers to defend themselves for an impending range war. ... view
Character:
Aug 1988 (first aired)
La Hora Marcada was a 1986 Mexican television anthology series famous for its horror and science fiction themes in the vein of the Twilight Zone. Alth ... view
Character:
(Varios) (14 ep.)
Original title: Días difíciles
1988
Two shareholder brothers close several factories due to economic problems, except for their chemical plants. ... view
Character:
Luisa Castelar
1987
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. ... view
Character:
Yrena
1987
Two secret police officers fight against drug dealers and a sadistic criminal who executes the mafia's enemies. ... view
Character:
1987
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata. ... view
Character:
Ernestina Martínez
Original title: El imperio de la fortuna
1986
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the de ... view
Character:
La Caponera
Original title: ¿Cómo Ves?
1986
A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer ... view
Character:
Fish vendor
1986
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are th ... view
Character:
Alicia the Working Girl
1986
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City. ... view
Character:
Adriana Rojas
1986
Two ditzy dance-hall girls are stranded on a tugboat floating down the big river after a night when all the crew kill each other in an unexplained fre ... view
Character:
Fifi
1985
Man and woman get married, they adapt to living together and he adapts to living with her four children. ... view
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Apr 1985 (first aired)
Juana Iris is a Mexican telenovela from 1985, starring Victoria Ruffo and Valentín Trujillo. ... view
Character:
Magali Santacilia (170 ep.)
1985
Industrial spies are holed up in a safe-house after killing a half-dozen people to steal some data. On their way to the private airfield where their h ... view
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1984
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man. ... view
Character:
Susana Gomez
1984
The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel. ... view
Character:
Marta Camargo
Original title: Nocaut
1984
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past. ... view
Character:
Lilia Montero
1984
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, s ... view
Character:
Petronila Quesada
1983
Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building. ... view
Character:
Sara
Original title: Eréndira
1983
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmot ... view
Character:
Ulysses' mother
1983
A woman uses her husband's money to open a beauty parlor/spa... so she'll have a place to meet with her lover. ... view
Character:
Wife of Compadre #1 (segment "Los Compadres")
1983
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents. ... view
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1983
Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress. ... view
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1982
An archaeologist travels to Mexico to investigate rumors of the discovery of the ancient statue of a fertility goddess. ... view
Character:
B.G. Alvarez
Original title: El caballito volador
1982
Mythical and fantastic story on the wishes of a peasant boy, Diego, who become reality in the course of a day and a night. On the eve of his birthday, ... view
Character:
Madre de Diego
1982
Song/action clips from 8 or 12 movies that starred Antonio Aguilar as historical figures, with an onscreen narrator who splains things. ... view
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1982
(AKA: Ratero 2 or Cada quien su madre.) Innocent man forced to hide from the police, ends up taking refuge in a brothel. ... view
Character:
Malena
1982
Historical drama about the career of a hit-man who specialized in political assassinations in Mexico in the 1920s-30s. ... view
Character:
Anita
1982
Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman. ... view
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Original title: Красные колокола. Фильм 1. Мексика в огне
1982
American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his rel ... view
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1981
An undocumented man becomes the leader of a movement that defends the working conditions of migrants in the United States. ... view
Character:
Xochitl
Original title: Las siete cucas
1981
A worker's wife and six pretty daughters are desired by all the men in their little town, so he decides to move his family elsewhere. ... view
Character:
Cuca's Stammering Daughter
1981
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago. ... view
Character:
Mercedes
1981
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar. ... view
Character:
Lupe
1981
After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back i ... view
Character:
La Chiquis
1980
A pharmaceutical salesman travels around the country and has sexual adventures in every place, but no woman really interests him. When returning from ... view
Character:
Sra. Gayosso
Original title: El Coyote Y La Bronca
1980
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple. ... view
Character:
María Trinidad / La Bronca
1980
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him. ... view
Character:
La Chiquis
Mar 1979 (first aired)
Yara is an indigenous woman who comes to Mexico City in search of a better quality of life. Yara suffered the contempt of society and the people aroun ... view
Character:
Regina (155 ep.)
1979
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, s ... view
Character:
Isabel Salas
1979
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already ple ... view
Character:
Gloria Revirado
1978
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited b ... view
Character:
Dolores Preciado
Original title: El complot mongol
1977
In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is c ... view
Character:
Martita